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Meditations
also: Марк Аврелий, Ta eis heauton, To Himself
The private philosophical notebook of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, a foundational Stoic text; Chekhov lends a copy (edition unspecified) to Alexander Pavlovich Lensky in this letter, noting his own pencil marginalia carry no special weight and advising Lensky to "read straight through everything, for it is all equally good."